My boyfriend, me and a cat.

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I'm going to stick up for the OP here, because this thread seems to be a lot of making him out as the bad guy for not wanting a pet and not allowing his boyfriend to get one. Not wanting a pet does not make you a bad person. Of course when someone who is not a pet person has a partner they are living with that is a pet lover, the non-pet person has to consider allowing a pet into the household, but this has to be a compromise and at this point in their lives the OP's boyfriend simply has little to offer on his side for this compromise. If you are trying to talk someone you are living with into letting you bring in a pet, part of that compromise needs to involve the cost of taking care of that pet and in this case it is the OP, the person that does not want the pet, that will be 100% responsible for the cost of this pet. How is it that fair to the OP? Eventually in this relationship the OP is probably going to have to give in and allow his boyfriend to have an animal, it is the kind of thing we do in relationships, but until the boyfriend has something to bring to the table in this compromise, he should not be pressuring the OP to bring a pet into the home.